Do you honestly think that if they did pick up one or two forwards from the ECHL or as free agents that the outcomes of those games would have been any different?

No, but that's not the point of what I'm saying or what I have been saying. A professional team in, what is now, the top league in North America should be playing their games with 12 forwards. Not 10 + 1 defenseman. That's not how a well run organization operates.